{"id":35,"date":"2020-09-30T08:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/?p=35"},"modified":"2020-09-30T08:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:43:21","slug":"survey-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/2020\/09\/30\/survey-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fashion and tools in Ancient Egypt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For my Survey one blog post I chose ancient\u00a0Egypt\u00a0as my time period. The two topics I chose to focus on are tools and sciences, as well as fashion.\u00a0Ancient\u00a0Egypt\u00a0was\u00a0a fascinating\u00a0portion of history that we are lucky to have\u00a0well-kept\u00a0records of. Let’s\u00a0get into it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found it easier to find information on tools rather than sciences for this\u00a0period as Egyptians were geniuses when it came to engineering. The\u00a0Egyptians\u00a0made incredible jumps in innovation and productivity with their inventions, many of\u00a0which\u00a0are still in use today to some\u00a0extent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us begin with\u00a0time.\u00a0The sundial was one of the two main kinds of clocks used by the\u00a0Egyptians. It\u00a0was presumably invented in the 8th\u00a0century BCE and was a device that used shadows cast by the sun to tell time. Time was\u00a0crucial\u00a0to ancient\u00a0Egypt\u00a0as they had advanced systems for farming and yearly flooding of the Nial River.\u00a0They invented their own\u00a0calendar\u00a0to keep track of the years,\u00a0and irrigation systems\u00a0to redistribute floodwaters and allow for control over more land.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egypt also has some of the first evidence of door locks. Pin locks,\u00a0much like the ones used today in our own homes,\u00a0were found\u00a0in buildings. They were much larger and presumably much easier to lockpick but\u00a0nevertheless,\u00a0it was a system of locking that has\u00a0never gone out of style.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fashion was also important to the Egyptian people. Both men and women wore wigs and makeup. They wore kohl on their eyes and ochre on their cheeks. Many fashion items were worn to signify and display wealth and\u00a0sexuality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nudity was commonplace in Ancient Egypt and not taboo. Women would wear Kalas which were thin sheer dresses to protect their skin but also allow themselves to stay cool. Men were almost always seen wearing\u00a0Shenti\u2019s\u00a0which were white skirts to protect their genitals from the work they were doing. People with money and importance would wear their\u00a0shenti\u00a0starched and stiff\u00a0with lots of space\u00a0in the front to represent their massive… amounts of\u00a0fertility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also\u00a0can’t\u00a0forget about the headdresses. The one we are all most familiar with is the Nemes, which was made of stripped starched linen\u00a0and is commonly seen represented on the tombs and sarcophaguses\u00a0of\u00a0pharaohs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a lot we have taken and kept from Ancient Egypt, from their eyeliner to their\u00a0irrigation systems and we would not be where we are today without the\u00a0engineers\u00a0of that time period.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1VY7C_Wa6DI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/discoveringegypt.com\/ancient-egyptian-inventions\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9kvd5wgRYA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Egyptian_inventions_and_discoveries<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/search-credoreference-com.ezproxy.capilanou.ca\/content\/entry\/routafricanhistory\/egypt_ancient_funeral_practices_and_mummification\/0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fashion and tools in Ancient Egypt For my Survey one blog post I chose ancient\u00a0Egypt\u00a0as my time period. The two topics I chose to focus on are tools and sciences, as well as fashion.\u00a0Ancient\u00a0Egypt\u00a0was\u00a0a fascinating\u00a0portion of history that we are lucky to have\u00a0well-kept\u00a0records of. Let’s\u00a0get into it.\u00a0 I found it easier to find information on … Continue reading Survey 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ides-141"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/aibhlinfowlie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}